Friday, 28 June 2013

Elaine's theme for our circle journal this time around is "Bucket List".
Since a bucket list is a list of things you want to do before you die I don't have any pix because I haven't done them yet! If you see what I mean?
What I do have though are masses of photographs of our trip last April to Italy's Amalfi coast which had long been on our bucket list and consequently has now been "ticked".

opening the left page reveals journallingand a photograph of beautiful tiling outside a shopfamous for products celebrating the amazing Amalfi lemon

Journalling:

A trip to
Italy’s Amalfi coast had long been on our bucket list and not just for the
stupendous lemonsfamously grown in the region.

In 2011 we
went online and discovered a small family run restaurant and B&B, “La
Tagliata”, situated high in the hills overlooking Positano.

The reviews
of this family run “jewel” serving food fresh from the terraced gardens made us
determined to go.

opening the right page reveals the rest of the storyand Amalfi lemons grown on the property.

Because La
Tagliata only has two guest rooms it took us over a year to get a reservation.

It was so
worth the wait to be able to experience that amazing view for ourselves.

To make our
stay even more memorable our wonderful driver, Vittorio, took us to the
beautiful cities of Ravello, Sorrento and the ruins at Pompeii.

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

This is my take on the June House Challenge on UKS which this month has been set by my house The Blue Brads, thanks Sarah (TL) for providing such great motivational prompts to inspire us.

I chose "Smile and the world smiles with you" as my inspiration for this page, another souvenir of our stay in Swaledale, Yorkshire a couple of months ago.
My sister Kathryn, stepmum Joyce & me practicing our Oprah smile!

Shoulders down; push your face forward and smile!

Get's rid of any double chins that might make you look less than your best.
It is also guaranteed to set everyone off laughing which always makes for a great photo.
I think little sister may have overdone it though this time!
I created the LO using my 2nd Counterfeit Kit (June) and some bits & pieces from stash
The quote beneath the photo is by Robert Brault:

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Monday, 3 June 2013

This month the kits to forge are Scraptastic's "After the Storm" and "Destination Unknown".

I chose to go with Destination Unknown simply because most of the layouts that I did with last month's kit "May Daze" turned out to be masculine and I feel like doing some pretty summery layouts as June is my Birthday month.

Normandy Life

About Me

Home is a 16th/18th century former Presbytery situated in a tiny village, surrounded by beautiful Normandy countryside.
I share it with my lovely husband and best friend of over 37 years, and M'selle Fleur our gorgeous German Shepherd.